Please join us for the fourth and final event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined.
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Abstract
In a global political context which favors practices of containment – from border walls to prisons –this talk traces a series of political experiments, or what Miriam Ticktin is calling forms of commoning, referring to antiracist and decolonial struggles against enclosures. Ticktin looks at occupations of buildings and land by people on the move (migrants), fighting for the freedom not just to move but to stay, challenging regimes of private property and nation-state governance. Aware of the contradictions raised by the concept of occupation, Miriam Ticktin will explore these alternative political formations in Calais, Paris, Athens and New York City.
Bio
Miriam Ticktin is Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York City. She publishes widely on topics such as migration, borders, humanitarianism, and racial and gendered inequalities, and most recently, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2012), and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010). Her next book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press.
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